Anyway to recover quicken files?

Unfortunately, it wasn't until AFTER i upgraded to Lion that I saw all the on line discussion about Quicken not functioning in Lion.  Now I'm desperately trying to find any fix for retrieving quicken files so that I can import them into a replacement.  Totally caught off guard on this one.  Should have not been anxious.  Any help would be appreciated.

Assuming you /backed-up/retained/transfered previous your documents and settings when you installed Lion, look in your Documents Folder for a folder named "Quicken Backup Folder". It should contain the most recently saved file, its backup and previous backups. Copy them to a thumb drive or burn a copy on a CD. You will have to access them on a computer with a PPC CPU or via Rosetta. Note that the files as they stand are not able to be directly imported into Quicken Essentials for Mac. There is an intermediate conversion process outlined on the Quicken website. Once you are able to open the Quicken file in Snow Leopard, or earlier, export the data as a .QIF. That can be imported directly into iBank 4 without any any loss of detail. Trying to import them into Quicken for Windows is no easy task. After five hours on my wife's Lenovo, I erased the import and bought Quicken Essentials for Mac at half price. We did not need to download bank account or investment information, or pay bill via Quicken. Good Luck!

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